David M Brodzinsky
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3484714 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David M Brodzinsky |
| NOMBRES | David M |
| APELLIDO | Brodzinsky |
| FIRMA | BRODZINSKY D M |
| AFILIACIONES | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8431-8942 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 252 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1972 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Measuring communication openness within adoptive families
This study investigates the psychometric properties of the Adoption Communication Openness (ACO) Scale. Following a multi-informant approach, the study considered four versions of the ACO Scale to assess the child’s perception of adoption communication openness with both mother and father and the mother’s and father’s perceptions of communication with the child. The validation sample included 331 Italian families, with an internationally adopted …
“There may be a genetic tendency …”
Factors associated with behavioral adjustment among school-age children of gay and heterosexual single fathers through surrogacy
Thirty-one children of gay single fathers and 28 children of heterosexual single fathers, all born through surrogacy, were compared with 31 children of gay partnered fathers through surrogacy and 30 children of heterosexual partnered fathers through in-vitro fertilization on their perceptions of self-worth and their father- and caregiver-reported internalizing and externalizing behaviors. For children of single fathers, the study also examined as…
Parent, Child, and Adoption Characteristics Associated with Post-Adoption Support Needs
The purpose of this study is to (a) identify whether there are meaningful subgroups of families with distinct post-adoption needs and (b) determine which parent, youth, and adoption characteristics are associated with these collections of needs. Using data from the Modern Adoptive Families study, authors conducted a three-step latent class analysis with a sample of 1,414 families who rated the importance of 16 areas of parent education and suppor…
Socializing Children About Family Structure
Despite increasing numbers of lesbian- and gay- (LG-) parent families, little research on LG-adoptive-parent families has examined parental beliefs and perceptions related to discussing their sexual minority status with their children. This study assessed 266 LG adoptive parents (160 lesbian mothers, 106 gay fathers) from the Modern Adoptive Families (MAF) study, a nationwide survey (2012–2013) of adoptive parents' pre- and post-placement experie…
Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Adoptive Parents’ Experiences with Pediatricians
Despite unique health risks and outcomes among adopted children, most pediatricians receive little training about this population. The current mixed-methods study explored lesbian, gay, and heterosexual adoptive parents' (n = 224, in 129 families) experiences with and perspectives on pediatricians. Parents in the study adopted via private domestic, public domestic, and international adoption. Parents who adopted via public domestic adoption were …
School responsiveness to adoption among lesbian mothers
A sample of adoptive parents, including an oversampling of lesbian mothers ( n = 125), was surveyed regarding their family's school experiences related to adoption, satisfaction with how the school handled adoption-related issues, and their child's experiences with teasing at school. Linear and logistic regression analyses showed that lesbian mothers were more likely than heterosexual parents and gay fathers to disclose their child's adoption sta…
Adoption in the service of child protection
Existing over many centuries, adoption has been challenged in recent years by evidence about practices that do not respond to the principles, ethics and laws under which it should be enacted. Written from a multidisciplinary and international perspective, this article outlines the place of adoption in the child protection system, as well as its core elements of permanence and stability. Recent demographic changes in adoption throughout the world …
Influence of Communicative Openness on the Psychological Adjustment of Internationally Adopted Adolescents
This study evaluated the predictive relationship between the communicative openness and psychological adjustment of adopted adolescents, controlling for preplacement risk factors. One hundred Spanish international adoptees aged 12–18 took part in the study. Data were gathered with a structured interview, the Youth Self Report and the Adoption Communication Scale. A history of maltreatment prior to the adoption was associated with more closed comm…
Commentary
Our commentary highlights the authors’ conceptual and empirical contributions for understanding the incidence and dynamics of varying types of adoption breakdowns and their impact on adopted youth and their families. Important distinctions are made between legal, residential, and psychological/relational permanence for children. To date, most research has focused on factors supporting or undermining legal and residential permanence but has largel…
Parent perspectives on adoption preparation
Contact with birth family in intercountry adoptions
Contact with birth family in adoptive families headed by lesbian, gay male, and heterosexual parents
Post-Placement Adjustment and the Needs of Birthmothers Who Place an Infant for Adoption
This study examines the emotional health of women who placed an infant for adoption during the first year post-placement and in their current life. Data were collected from 235 women, on average, 3.5 years after placement. Approximately 75% of women viewed their emotional health as “very poor,” “poor,” or “neutral” in the first year post-placement. Despite improvement in emotional health over time, over a third continued to report significant pro…
Treatment and Therapy Considerations for Adopted Children and Their Families
Adoptive families seek mental health counseling more often than the general population (Miller, Fan, Christensen, Grotevant, & van Dulmen, 2000). In many cases, problems stem from factors that pred
Children's understanding of adoption
Because adopted children are overrepresented in mental health settings, their parents often consult psychologists to help them understand and manage some of the unique developmental and childrearing challenges they commonly face. One of the most frequent issues raised by these parents is talking wit
Family Structural Openness and Communication Openness as Predictors in the Adjustmentof Adopted Children
The current study examined the relative contribution of family structural openness versus communication openness in the adjustment of adopted children. Seventy-three adopted children, placed predominately in inracial families within 18 months of their birth, were the focus of the study. Parental ratings of family structural openness and children's ratings of communication openness served as the primary predictor variables and children's ratings o…
Adoption Agency Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Prospective Parents
A nationwide survey of adoption agencies was conducted to examine their policies, practices, and attitudes with regard to lesbian and gay prospective adoptive parents. A total of 214 questionnaires were received, representing a return rate of 26 percent. Sixty-three percent of respondents indicated that their agency accepted applications from lesbian and gay individuals, and nearly 38 percent indicated that their agency had made at least one adop…
Children's Adjustment to Adoption
This volume offers extensive coverage of theory and research on children and families and the contextual issues pertinent to the adoption process, with clinical vignettes punctuating key points. The authors close with a discussion of intervention and assessment issues that commonly arise when working with adoptees and their families. Children's Adjustment to Adoption is a welcome addition to the current literature on the psychological issues asso…
Long-Term Outcomes in Adoption
Considerable debate has arisen in the professional literature regarding the possibility of increased psychological risk in adopted children compared with nonadopted children. A selective review of the literature indicates that, although most adoptees are well within the normal range of functioning, as a group they are more vulnerable to various emotional, behavioral, and academic problems than their nonadopted peers living in intact homes with th…
Impact of parental separation and divorce on adopted and nonadopted children
The impact of parental separation and divorce on adopted and nonadopted children was examined. Although children from nonintact homes showed poorer adjustment than did children from intact homes, the results were comparable for adoptees and nonadoptees. In addition, life stress associated with marital disruption was found to account for the majority of children's adjustment problems
The Psychology Of Adoption
Recent empirical work has shown that adopted children are more vulnerable to a host of psychological and school-related problems compared to their non-adopted peers. The rate of referral of adopted children to mental-health facilities is far above what would be expected given their representation in the general population. However, our understanding of the basis of these problems remains unclear. David Brodzinsky has conducted one of the largest …
A Stress and Coping Model of Adoption Adjustment
In the past two decades, social casework personnel, clinicians, and researchers alike have begun to pay increased attention to the psychological complications associated with adoption. Their attention has been prompted by numerous reports of high rates of referral of adopted children and youth to outpatient and inpatient mental health facilities. For example, although adopted children constitute approximately 2% of the total population of childre…
Transition to Adoptive Parenthood
The present paper presents a conceptual and empirical overview or the transition to adoptive parenthood. It is argued that prospective adoptive couples confront not only the universal problems faced by other adults in the transition to parenthood, but a host of challenges and hurdles that are unique to adoptive family life. It is also noted, however, that contrary to expectations, adoptive parents and their children appear to handle these additio…
Thinking About the Family
Family Structural Openness and Communication Openness as Predictors in the Adjustmentof Adopted Children
The current study examined the relative contribution of family structural openness versus communication openness in the adjustment of adopted children. Seventy-three adopted children, placed predominately in inracial families within 18 months of their birth, were the focus of the study. Parental ratings of family structural openness and children's ratings of communication openness served as the primary predictor variables and children's ratings o…
Long-Term Outcomes in Adoption
Considerable debate has arisen in the professional literature regarding the possibility of increased psychological risk in adopted children compared with nonadopted children. A selective review of the literature indicates that, although most adoptees are well within the normal range of functioning, as a group they are more vulnerable to various emotional, behavioral, and academic problems than their nonadopted peers living in intact homes with th…
Commentary
Our commentary highlights the authors’ conceptual and empirical contributions for understanding the incidence and dynamics of varying types of adoption breakdowns and their impact on adopted youth and their families. Important distinctions are made between legal, residential, and psychological/relational permanence for children. To date, most research has focused on factors supporting or undermining legal and residential permanence but has largel…
Adoption in the service of child protection
Existing over many centuries, adoption has been challenged in recent years by evidence about practices that do not respond to the principles, ethics and laws under which it should be enacted. Written from a multidisciplinary and international perspective, this article outlines the place of adoption in the child protection system, as well as its core elements of permanence and stability. Recent demographic changes in adoption throughout the world …
Adoption Agency Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Prospective Parents
A nationwide survey of adoption agencies was conducted to examine their policies, practices, and attitudes with regard to lesbian and gay prospective adoptive parents. A total of 214 questionnaires were received, representing a return rate of 26 percent. Sixty-three percent of respondents indicated that their agency accepted applications from lesbian and gay individuals, and nearly 38 percent indicated that their agency had made at least one adop…
Sex of subject and gender identity as factors in humor appreciation
Influence of Communicative Openness on the Psychological Adjustment of Internationally Adopted Adolescents
This study evaluated the predictive relationship between the communicative openness and psychological adjustment of adopted adolescents, controlling for preplacement risk factors. One hundred Spanish international adoptees aged 12–18 took part in the study. Data were gathered with a structured interview, the Youth Self Report and the Adoption Communication Scale. A history of maltreatment prior to the adoption was associated with more closed comm…
Parent perspectives on adoption preparation
Post-Placement Adjustment and the Needs of Birthmothers Who Place an Infant for Adoption
This study examines the emotional health of women who placed an infant for adoption during the first year post-placement and in their current life. Data were collected from 235 women, on average, 3.5 years after placement. Approximately 75% of women viewed their emotional health as “very poor,” “poor,” or “neutral” in the first year post-placement. Despite improvement in emotional health over time, over a third continued to report significant pro…
Relationship between cognitive style and cognitive development
Transition to Adoptive Parenthood
The present paper presents a conceptual and empirical overview or the transition to adoptive parenthood. It is argued that prospective adoptive couples confront not only the universal problems faced by other adults in the transition to parenthood, but a host of challenges and hurdles that are unique to adoptive family life. It is also noted, however, that contrary to expectations, adoptive parents and their children appear to handle these additio…
Parent, Child, and Adoption Characteristics Associated with Post-Adoption Support Needs
The purpose of this study is to (a) identify whether there are meaningful subgroups of families with distinct post-adoption needs and (b) determine which parent, youth, and adoption characteristics are associated with these collections of needs. Using data from the Modern Adoptive Families study, authors conducted a three-step latent class analysis with a sample of 1,414 families who rated the importance of 16 areas of parent education and suppor…
Contact with birth family in adoptive families headed by lesbian, gay male, and heterosexual parents
Contact with birth family in intercountry adoptions
Looking at adoption through rose-colored glasses
Cognitive style differences in children's spatial perspective taking
The role of conceptual tempo and stimulus characteristics in children's humor development
Perceptual and logical factors in the development of multiplicative classification
Factors associated with behavioral adjustment among school-age children of gay and heterosexual single fathers through surrogacy
Thirty-one children of gay single fathers and 28 children of heterosexual single fathers, all born through surrogacy, were compared with 31 children of gay partnered fathers through surrogacy and 30 children of heterosexual partnered fathers through in-vitro fertilization on their perceptions of self-worth and their father- and caregiver-reported internalizing and externalizing behaviors. For children of single fathers, the study also examined as…
Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Adoptive Parents’ Experiences with Pediatricians
Despite unique health risks and outcomes among adopted children, most pediatricians receive little training about this population. The current mixed-methods study explored lesbian, gay, and heterosexual adoptive parents' (n = 224, in 129 families) experiences with and perspectives on pediatricians. Parents in the study adopted via private domestic, public domestic, and international adoption. Parents who adopted via public domestic adoption were …
New Perspectives on Adoption Revelation
The Editor gratefully acknowledges the kind permission of the Author and the Editor of Adoption and Fostering to reproduce this paper. Professor Brodzinsky's paper first appeared in 1984 in Vol.8, No. 2 of Adoption and Fostering, the Quarterly Journal of British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
Control of humorous affect in relation to children's conceptual tempo
Treatment and Therapy Considerations for Adopted Children and Their Families
Adoptive families seek mental health counseling more often than the general population (Miller, Fan, Christensen, Grotevant, & van Dulmen, 2000). In many cases, problems stem from factors that pred
Three-year stability of reflection-impulsivity in young adolescents
Perceptual and logical factors in the development of multiplicative classification
The role of conceptual tempo and stimulus characteristics in children's humor development
Control of humorous affect in relation to children's conceptual tempo
Cognitive style differences in children's spatial perspective taking
Sex of subject and gender identity as factors in humor appreciation
Three-year stability of reflection–impulsivity in young adolescents
Three-year stability of reflection-impulsivity in young adolescents
Relationship between cognitive style and cognitive development
Children's Understanding of Adoption
New Perspectives on Adoption Revelation
The Editor gratefully acknowledges the kind permission of the Author and the Editor of Adoption and Fostering to reproduce this paper. Professor Brodzinsky's paper first appeared in 1984 in Vol.8, No. 2 of Adoption and Fostering, the Quarterly Journal of British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
Adjustment to adoption
Looking at adoption through rose-colored glasses
Transition to Adoptive Parenthood
The present paper presents a conceptual and empirical overview or the transition to adoptive parenthood. It is argued that prospective adoptive couples confront not only the universal problems faced by other adults in the transition to parenthood, but a host of challenges and hurdles that are unique to adoptive family life. It is also noted, however, that contrary to expectations, adoptive parents and their children appear to handle these additio…
Thinking About the Family
The Psychology Of Adoption
Recent empirical work has shown that adopted children are more vulnerable to a host of psychological and school-related problems compared to their non-adopted peers. The rate of referral of adopted children to mental-health facilities is far above what would be expected given their representation in the general population. However, our understanding of the basis of these problems remains unclear. David Brodzinsky has conducted one of the largest …
A Stress and Coping Model of Adoption Adjustment
In the past two decades, social casework personnel, clinicians, and researchers alike have begun to pay increased attention to the psychological complications associated with adoption. Their attention has been prompted by numerous reports of high rates of referral of adopted children and youth to outpatient and inpatient mental health facilities. For example, although adopted children constitute approximately 2% of the total population of childre…
Long-Term Outcomes in Adoption
Considerable debate has arisen in the professional literature regarding the possibility of increased psychological risk in adopted children compared with nonadopted children. A selective review of the literature indicates that, although most adoptees are well within the normal range of functioning, as a group they are more vulnerable to various emotional, behavioral, and academic problems than their nonadopted peers living in intact homes with th…
Impact of parental separation and divorce on adopted and nonadopted children
The impact of parental separation and divorce on adopted and nonadopted children was examined. Although children from nonintact homes showed poorer adjustment than did children from intact homes, the results were comparable for adoptees and nonadoptees. In addition, life stress associated with marital disruption was found to account for the majority of children's adjustment problems
Children's Adjustment to Adoption
This volume offers extensive coverage of theory and research on children and families and the contextual issues pertinent to the adoption process, with clinical vignettes punctuating key points. The authors close with a discussion of intervention and assessment issues that commonly arise when working with adoptees and their families. Children's Adjustment to Adoption is a welcome addition to the current literature on the psychological issues asso…
Adoption Agency Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Prospective Parents
A nationwide survey of adoption agencies was conducted to examine their policies, practices, and attitudes with regard to lesbian and gay prospective adoptive parents. A total of 214 questionnaires were received, representing a return rate of 26 percent. Sixty-three percent of respondents indicated that their agency accepted applications from lesbian and gay individuals, and nearly 38 percent indicated that their agency had made at least one adop…
Family Structural Openness and Communication Openness as Predictors in the Adjustmentof Adopted Children
The current study examined the relative contribution of family structural openness versus communication openness in the adjustment of adopted children. Seventy-three adopted children, placed predominately in inracial families within 18 months of their birth, were the focus of the study. Parental ratings of family structural openness and children's ratings of communication openness served as the primary predictor variables and children's ratings o…
Children's understanding of adoption
Because adopted children are overrepresented in mental health settings, their parents often consult psychologists to help them understand and manage some of the unique developmental and childrearing challenges they commonly face. One of the most frequent issues raised by these parents is talking wit
Treatment and Therapy Considerations for Adopted Children and Their Families
Adoptive families seek mental health counseling more often than the general population (Miller, Fan, Christensen, Grotevant, & van Dulmen, 2000). In many cases, problems stem from factors that pred
Post-Placement Adjustment and the Needs of Birthmothers Who Place an Infant for Adoption
This study examines the emotional health of women who placed an infant for adoption during the first year post-placement and in their current life. Data were collected from 235 women, on average, 3.5 years after placement. Approximately 75% of women viewed their emotional health as “very poor,” “poor,” or “neutral” in the first year post-placement. Despite improvement in emotional health over time, over a third continued to report significant pro…
Contact with birth family in adoptive families headed by lesbian, gay male, and heterosexual parents
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